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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I dont need reminding that the world and people are shit.

well, nobody needs a "reminder", these are basic things everyone knows.

the question is not whether we should remember. the question is: given that the world and people are shit: how does one deal with that?

but that isn't the right question really, because the shittiness of life does not operate at an abstract, conceptual level like some platonic idea of the shitty. it is always real and specific and concrete, and complex, and complicated. the concept of shittiness derives from that concrete experience, not the otjer way around.

so it is good for all of us (who have to deal with the shit of life) to see a complex and complicated scenario of specific shittiness without actually being a part of it. that is the relief and the medicine. you witness it, but you are not in it. there is distance.

and witnessing it one might boohoo or haaahaaa, depending. but whatever happens, it's not you, the spectator, who is in it. lucky it's not you! it is someone else, a character, who is being tragic or ridiculous. relief!

and so, from the detachment of purged emotions, the ability to process and the freedom to think about how to deal with shitty things like that. which is not a luxury the trapped have amidst their suffering.

and that there has been theatre since the greeks.